JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Gabon says a major ivory trafficking ring that smuggled more than 600 tusks out of the country in 2017 has been dismantled, in a victory against poachers who have killed large numbers of forest elephants in the Central African country. Gabon's national parks agency says the Chadian head of the syndicate, Abdoulaye Mohamoud Ibrahim, and eight accomplices were arrested on Nov.